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No, the author is exactly right. People booing during the moment of unity is proof that it was never about the military or respect for the flag, because the players were standing & locking arms during the moment of unity. The booing just shows that a large segment of our country has swung so far to the right that they now view it as acceptable to boo the concept of not judging someone by the color of their skin alone but by their character. That's where we are as a country right now.
Wrong.
They're booing because they just want to watch millionaire football players throw the ball, catch the ball, kick the ball, run the ball and slam into each other at high rates of speed.
It's really that simple.
If the players have a right to demonstrate on the field, the fans have a right to boo before they watch the game.
No, the author is exactly right. People booing during the moment of unity is proof that it was never about the military or respect for the flag, because the players were standing & locking arms during the moment of unity. The booing just shows that a large segment of our country has swung so far to the right that they now view it as acceptable to boo the concept of not judging someone by the color of their skin alone but by their character. That's where we are as a country right now.
Total B. S. The fans don't want to see protests and don't want a lecture and to be called racist. You are left of Stalin so don't get it
No, the author is exactly right. People booing during the moment of unity is proof that it was never about the military or respect for the flag, because the players were standing & locking arms during the moment of unity. The booing just shows that a large segment of our country has swung so far to the right that they now view it as acceptable to boo the concept of not judging someone by the color of their skin alone but by their character. That's where we are as a country right now.
No, it just shows you are too dense to understand the point. The booing was due to all that went before with the NFL. They have already given a middle finger to fans. The Genie is out of the bottle. Had they done this at the start, it might have gone smoothly. And the NFL doesn't get the point that these shootings are rare and that police are now being held accountable.
You wouldn't know from all the national coverage that LeBron James isn't paying for everything at his new I Promise School in Akron.
He's paying for part of it. A good part of it.
But it's also a public school within the Akron school district, which means that taxpayers will pay for the bulk of the costs.
The exact breakdown of expenses for the new I Promise School is unclear, since the district and the LeBron James Family Foundation are still sorting out final details of their contract. But the district will pay more than half the costs - perhaps around 75 percent - once it is fully running.
I Promise will eventually cost about $8 million a year to run out of the district's regular budget, covered mostly by shifting students, teachers and money from other schools, the district says.
"The coverage made it look like the whole thing is his," said district spokesman Mark Williamson. "He did a lot, but taxpayers should know it's their investment too."
No, the author is exactly right. People booing during the moment of unity is proof that it was never about the military or respect for the flag, because the players were standing & locking arms during the moment of unity. The booing just shows that a large segment of our country has swung so far to the right that they now view it as acceptable to boo the concept of not judging someone by the color of their skin alone but by their character. That's where we are as a country right now.
Nope. It's a response to people who are sick and tired of caving to hollow displays of some cause that has led to a lot of violence and destruction that isn't going away. And a perfect escape from that reality should be tuning into a game - but now we're faced with it on the field, too.
Not to mention the NFL would not allow any such display when five cops were shot in Dallas.
And then there's the pesky little problem of the high rate of domestic abuse and brain damage they don't seem too worried about when it comes to their players.
It's hypocrisy and people are tired of hypocrisy.
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